Now this is what the list is all about!

Camping and eating good in your westy.

Jason perhaps you can share a "basic"  hit of a dish for us who live on
cherrios.

If I am so fortunate to have a "westygal" along for the ride and a need to
impress with my outback westy meal prep.

Lay a good simple knock your socks off westy recipe on us.

Doug

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Willenbrock" <pooncerelli@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: Our kitchen sure gets used...

> my wife and I eat very well on our trips
>
> our westy Kitchen makes us Beef Fajitas, Homemade Chili, Pasta with Fra
> Diavalo Sauce, savory crepes, pan roasted lobster with mushrooms we are
> lucky enough to forage on our trips, Fondue with Crusty bread, etc...
blah,
> blah, blah.  Breakfast includes the usual homemade pancakes (Huckleberries
> if we can find them), biscuits and gravy, Brazilian coffee (Cone Filter
and
> Slow Drip ONLY!)
> It helps that we are both professional chefs and we do most our "Mise en
> Place" at home, so when we are camped cooking is a snap. We cook inside,
we
> eat inside, the van gets a great homemade meal smell until we air it out
at
> home, clean curtains and clean interior.  smells have never lingered.
> we keep a pretty good wine list on our trips as well!
> Propane barely lasts us 2 weeks because we use it a lot.  once we did a
beef
> braise on a trip, cooked the meat slowly in red wine (no flambe from wine)
> on very low flame for about 3-4 hours, propane lasted less then a week.
> Fridge works so well we never need another cooler unless a lot of friends
> are coming then we need more beer storage.  now winter is pretty close
here
> in western montana and we are nearing then end of camping, maybe one more
> trip to the gorge to see jack johnson next weekend.
> we got camp cooking down to a science.  if anyone would like some tips or
> recipes for westy cooking please pmail me and i'll be happy to help.
>
> for me camping is as much eating well, as it is enjoying nature for mental
> well-being.  if the food is not good, then the trip lacks something!
>
> jason
> 87 syncro westy
>
> >From: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
> >Reply-To: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> >Subject: Our kitchen sure gets used...
> >Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 17:49:31 -0500
> >
> >We carry a full set of cookware because we eat really well from that
> >little westy kitchen. We usually eat inside as well, the places we go
> >don't have picnic tables and we don't carry one.
> >
> >Jim
> >
> >On Sep 19, 2004, at 10:41 AM, Malcolm Stebbins wrote:
> >
> >>--- Doug in Calif <vanagon@ASTOUND.NET> wrote:
> >>
> >>>  Everybody says they don't cook in the van except for coffee.
> >>
> >>"Everbody" save Malcolm & Pat.  We cook 99% of our camping meals in
> >>the Westy, coffee too.  And
> >>most of the time we eat in the van.  We really have to 'remember' to
> >>use the picnic tables.  M
> >>
> >>
> >>
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